Your single most annoying thing/mistake in a movie!

[Robster]

Mine has got to be in xmen 3 the last stand , when they trick juggernaut into losing his mutant powers and crashing into a wall, except he's NOT A MUTANT AND THIS WOULDNT OF WORKED! Grrrr!

[stuartmmcfc]

I hate it in porno films that all the blokes are well hung and can last for ages...

[HD Adam]

Machine guns that hold 500 bullets per mag

Helicopters quiet enough to hold a normal conversation in

But really, car related goofs.

Working on the diff of a Mini under the rear during the Italian Job

15 gear changes during a drag race and when your opponent is dead level and giving you the evils, you put your foot down even harder.

And this

[robemcdonald]

Pretty much everything from the last 3 bond films, but I guess the aren't really mistakes just intentional none sense.

So I would have to go with sue storms wig in the reshoot bits of the latest fantastic four movie. It looks like it was bought from a shop in Harlesden..

[Halmyre]

Don't know if it's a mistake as such, but in 'Heat' there's a scene where they break into a bank computer room through the floor, to swap out the security alarm circuit boards. The backplane PCB has these ridiculously long ribbon cables, just the right length to enable them to drop the backplane down to swap out the circuit boards.

[Mothersruin]

Anything military.

[nicanary]

Mothersruin said:

Anything military.

Oh yes. Especially 1950s/60s productions where the actors have modern hair styles and all the WW2 trucks are Bedford RLs painted with swastikas. The Me109s are often Pilatus light aircraft.

I'd like to say it's laziness, but I suppose that there weren't so many military preservation clubs about at the time, and most of the stuff we now see at meetings was still rusting in some scrapyard.

[98elise]

Mothersruin said:

Anything military.

95% of actors dressed in uniform look like a bag of st. Berets are particularly bad.

[Mothersruin]

98elise said:

Mothersruin said:

Anything military.

95% of actors dressed in uniform look like a bag of st. Berets are particularly bad.

I was chatting a mate about this the other day.

Actors can never get wearing uniforms or kit right, but as we know it takes a squaddies years of experience and tweaking to get your webbing, for example, exactly how you want it. Then factor in the squaddie lives in the stuff, it's like it's part of their bodies and they look natural carrying the weight.

Actors simply can't get that.

[robemcdonald]

Mothersruin said:

Anything military.

This surprises me a bit. Whilst Stallones exploits clearly bear no resemblance to actual combat, what about films like a bridge to far, black hawk down and more recently Fury. I went to Bovingdon last week and there was an exhibit explaining how they provided a lot of support to ensure accuracy. My feeling would be those guys know what they are talking about.

[Mothersruin]

robemcdonald said:

Mothersruin said:

Anything military.

This surprises me a bit. Whilst Stallones exploits clearly bear no resemblance to actual combat, what about films like a bridge to far, black hawk down and more recently Fury. I went to Bovingdon last week and there was an exhibit explaining how they provided a lot of support to ensure accuracy. My feeling would be those guys know what they are talking about.

As above really, actors don't move and carry themselves like soldiers regardless of the accuracy of the props etc... It's not their fault, just the way it is.

[robemcdonald]

Mothersruin said:

As above really, actors don't move and carry themselves like soldiers regardless of the accuracy of the props etc... It's not their fault, just the way it is.

You are obviously speaking from experience and based on your location I guess you know what you are talking about. I suppose if they ever bothered to do a movie about sales reps I would be in the same boat as you.

[easytiger123]

robemcdonald said:

You are obviously speaking from experience and based on your location I guess you know what you are talking about. I suppose if they ever bothered to do a movie about sales reps I would be in the same boat as you.

Please watch Glengarry Glen Ross and report back!

[Derek Smith]

In The Mummy Returns, when the bus goes over Tower Bridge. A basic and rather silly error that spoiled the whole film for me. A number 21 bus goes over London Bridge.

Typical Yanks.

[FourWheelDrift]

Die Hard. McLane arrives at the Nakatomi building and is told to use the name database screen for his wife. When he finds it he says (forget what floor number) and the reception gimp says "its the party, they're the only ones left in the building". Why didn't he just say that when McLane first asked. Yes I know it sets up the different name thing but its a clumsy way to do it.

[lukeyman]

Tyre tracks from previous takes or dust thrown up from the camera car.

[Noodle1982]

Transformers The Movie (1985). The scene where the robot is being judged. The decision of innocent is made yet they still fed him to the Sharkticons. Confused me for years when i was a kid.

[anonymous-user]

Mothersruin said:

robemcdonald said:

Mothersruin said:

Anything military.

This surprises me a bit. Whilst Stallones exploits clearly bear no resemblance to actual combat, what about films like a bridge to far, black hawk down and more recently Fury. I went to Bovingdon last week and there was an exhibit explaining how they provided a lot of support to ensure accuracy. My feeling would be those guys know what they are talking about.

As above really, actors don't move and carry themselves like soldiers regardless of the accuracy of the props etc... It's not their fault, just the way it is.

Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers all ran actor boot camps prior to filming and those are four films where I'd say the action is pretty well choreographed AND the cast don't look out-of-the-bag clean either.

[Beati Dogu]

Actors trying to portray physical work on screen. They're usually far too effete to put their luvvie backs into it. Tapping at things with a pick axe etc.


Running around with a bloody pistol instead of picking up the assault rifle off the dead bad guy.


Also crappy sound editing like this Tesla V8:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rct8DTDfYpo

[gazzarose]

lukeyman said:

Tyre tracks from previous takes or dust thrown up from the camera car.

Have you just been watching Smokey and the Bandit? I've just watched it on ITV2 and there are a few times you see the previous attempts.